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“He discovered or described hundreds of afflictions and cures, and by testing remedies he concluded “Laughter is the best medicine””

— Eduardo Galeano Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009)

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Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.

Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking Glass World (2000)

The division of labor among nations is that some specialize in winning and others in losing.

The dominant culture of the world teaches us that The Other is a threat, that our fellow human beings are a danger. We will all continue to be exiles in one form or another as long as we continue to accept the paradigm that the world is a racetrack or a battlefield.

As the owners of heaven forbade chocolate to mortals, so the owners of earth forbade it to commoners.

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009)

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

The Book of Embraces (1991)

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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Albert Einstein Essay to Leo Baeck (1953)

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

William Hazlitt Lectures on the English Comic Writers (1819)

Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt,
And every grin so merry draws one out.

John Wolcot

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